A nice Friday thread – your tenuous claims to fame…

I’ll start;

My sister’s friend’s mum was Harold Shipman’s receptionist

My mum sat next to Andy Bell, of synthpop duo Erasure fame, on a plane

Used to be baby sat by Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics.

this again? oh ok, go on then.

Tried to drink Lemmy under the table at the St moritz club in Soho, he wiped the floor with me.

I shared a ski lift with the winner of the original Big Brother.

I dated a Page 3 girl/porn starlet who sadly is still in the business.

I know pigface’s ex.

I am pigface’s ex

can i get pigfaces ex’s number?

Barry John, Wales greatest fly half but pissed it away in spectacular fashion, very distant cousin.

Liam Neeson is my 2nd cousin.
Once beat Eric Bristow at darts.

Pigface.

Photos or it didn’t happen.

😉

I once carried Bobby Ball’s suitcase into a hotel.

I was at school with a guy, whose sister’s friend’s mum was Harold Shipman’s receptionist.

I know Tim Berners-Lee’s sister.

ti pin man…..outdrink Lemmy ? are you mental?

Jack Steadman (lead singer of Bombay bicycle club) tried to chat me up at an after gig. He’s persistant, I’ll give him that.

Stood with Florence Welch in a queue for falafels at Glasto a few years ago, we discussed crochet patterns.

I got kicked out of a train carriage for insulting Tony Christie.

I once had dinner – and breakfast – with David Essex (FWIW, my motorbike appears in a scene of Silver Dream Racer. )

I appeared on Japanese TV compleating my last munro. http://www.blog.scotroutes.com/p/compleating-my-munros.html

My missus sings gaelic in one of the episodes of Outlander (currently showing in the US).

Pretty pish eh?

I told The Six Million Dollar Man that one of the brake lights on his 911 wasn’t working.
Not much help from his bionic implants there then 🙂
He said thanks.

I lived next door for 6 months to one of the foremost actors of our generation. Never met him since.

Tony Blair wrote the foreword to to a close relative’s book. I never got a free copy.

One bloke I was at Uni with lives in LA and has his own official fanclub, but you’d never have heard of him…

I sold Alec Stewart a Christmas tree once

I once had* a curry with John Peel. and in a separate incident, Jon Pertwee came and sat at our table at a Honda show at Donington Park and had a conversation with my step dad. he disappeared for a few minuites & came back in his Worzel Gummidge costume and carried on the conversation, but in character. Very funny!

* ok, not strictly with him, he’d just done a roadshow at Bradford Uni & was in one of the local curry houses. I went in and sat at a nearby table with some friends

I sold David “Kid” Jensen some padded pants.
And I sold Scary Spice a bike.
And I have slept with Susan Boyle.*

*She was in the seat next to me on an overnight flight back from LA. She snores.

* ok, not strictly with him, he’d just done a roadshow at Bradford Uni & was in one of the local curry houses. I went in and sat at a nearby table with some friends

Well if we’re doing that, I had dinner sat on an adjoining table to Johnny Vegas in a quiet little restaurant in Barcelona.

Mrs Llama:

had her hair done while Kylie sat in the next chair

nearly ran over Jamie Oliver (and Mrs Oliver) when they stepped of a curb in front of her without looking

both opportunities sorely missed I’m sure you will agree

I worked in a fancy cocktail bar before I went to uni and served Brian Robson and the guy who played Curly Watts on a regular basis and occassionally John Barnes (I didn’t know who he was until he gave me a £20 tip) and Lisa Stansfield (who was utterly gorgeous until she opened her mouth). Various other football players also used to come in when playing Man U (although I never recognised any of them).

Craig Charles waved at me when I was on my bike.
I smiled and waved back.
He was really waving at the taxi behind me 😳

OK – I’ve also sat next to Bruce Forsyth and one of his daughters/wives (aren’t they all about the same age?) in a restaurant in Puerto Banus.

and I’ve been on The Tube. (music TV show with Joolz Holland & Paula Yates for the young ‘uns)

in the audience for New Model Army, Jan ’84

Don’t you want me?

Excellent thread

A business I ran was in the papers, including the Daily Mail business section 8O.
My ex boss was sent to jail for money laundering, he was invloved in trying to fund a missile sale to terrorists (it was all an FBI sting operation).
I have the same name as one of Madonna’s ex’s (tenuous).

I once worked with someone who was locked in his school locker by Michael Hutchence.

Jeremy Clarksons mum lives in the next village to me

Patrick viera asked me to move my van as I was blocking his drive.

Demonstrated CPR to Princess Anne.

My mum went on a date with Emlyn Hughes.

Does he make tellies?

I have the same name as one of Madonna’s ex’s (tenuous).

I was in a band with a guy who went on to play guitar on her Ray Of Light album

Don’t you want me?

I did but that was five years ago

I fixed fergal sharkys window.

I sang on the Christmas No.1, in 1980, keeping John Lennon off top spot.